What Art Is
Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 030017487X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of America's most celebrated art critics offers a lively meditation on the nature of art.
Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 030017487X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of America's most celebrated art critics offers a lively meditation on the nature of art.
Author: Bob Raczka
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780761328742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rhyming text and photographs show that art is much more than just what can be hung on a wall or set on a pedestal. By the author of No One Saw. Simultaneous.
Author: Milton Glaser
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2008-10-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781590200063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Examples of well-known projects abound - ranging from newspapers and magazines to toys, textiles, interiors, posters, and CD covers. If you've ever seen the menu at Windows on the World, used a bottle of ketchup from Grand Union, or read the playbill for Tony Kushner's Angels in America, you've been privy to the conceptual thinking of a powerful force in design."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Stephen Nachmanovitch, PhD
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1608686159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A MASTERFUL BOOK ABOUT BREATHING LIFE INTO ART AND ART INTO LIFE "Stephen Nachmanovitch's The Art of Is is a philosophical meditation on living, living fully, living in the present. To the author, an improvisation is a co-creation that arises out of listening and mutual attentiveness, out of a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity. It is a product of the nervous system, bigger than the brain and bigger than the body; it is a once-in-a-lifetime encounter, unprecedented and unrepeatable. Drawing from the wisdom of the ages, The Art of Is not only gives the reader an inside view of the states of mind that give rise to improvisation, it is also a celebration of the power of the human spirit, which — when exercised with love, immense patience, and discipline — is an antidote to hate." — Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
Author: Pat B. Allen
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 1995-04-11
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0834823268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An expert in art therapy offers this “wonderful” guide “for anyone, artistic or not, who is interested in using art to know more about himself or herself” (Library Journal) Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom. This book offers encouragement for everyone to explore art-making in this spirit of self-discovery—plus practical instructions on material, methods, and activities, such as ways to: • Discover a personal myth or story • Recognize patterns and themes in one's life • Identify and release painful memories • Combine journaling and image making • Practice the ancient skill of active imagination • Connect with others through sharing one's art works Interwoven with this guidance is the intimate story of the author's own journey as a student, art therapist, teacher, wife, mother, and artist—and, most of all, as a woman who discovered a profound and healing connection with her soul through making art.
Author: Jane Kramer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780822315490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we live in a society we share with people who are, often by their own definitions, "different?" Ahearn's subjects were "not the best of the neighborhood." They were a junkie, a hustler, and a street kid. Their images sparked a controversy throughout the community--and New York itself--over issues of white representations of people of color and the appropriateness of particular images as civic art. The sculptures, cast in bronze and painted, were up for only five days before Ahearn removed them. This compelling narrative raises questions about community and public art policies, about stereotypes and multiculturalism. With wit, drama, sympathy, and circumspection, Kramer draws the reader into the multicultural debate, challenging our assumptions about art, image, and their relation to community. Her portrait of the South Bronx takes the argument to its grass roots--provocative, surprising in its contradictions and complexities and not at all easy to resolve. Accompanied by an introduction by Catharine R. Stimpson exploring the issues of artistic freedom, "political correctness," and multiculturalism, Whose Art Is It? is a lively and accessible introduction to the ongoing debate on representation and private expression in the public sphere.
Author: Miguel Tamen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0674067959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art takes its technical vocabulary from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It is ridiculous to think of poems, paintings, or films as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about other relevant matters.
Author: Yxta Maya Murray
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2021-01-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0810142937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In her funny, idiosyncratic, and propulsive new novel, Art Is Everything, Yxta Maya Murray offers us a portrait of a Chicana artist as a woman on the margins. L.A. native Amanda Ruiz is a successful performance artist who is madly in love with her girlfriend, a wealthy and pragmatic actuary named Xōchitl. Everything seems under control: Amanda’s grumpy father is living peacefully in Koreatown; Amanda is about to enjoy a residency at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and, once she gets her NEA, she’s going to film a groundbreaking autocritical documentary in Mexico. But then everything starts to fall apart when Xōchitl’s biological clock begins beeping, Amanda’s father dies, and she endures a sexual assault. What happens to an artist when her emotional support vanishes along with her feelings of safety and her finances? Written as a series of web posts, Instagram essays, Snapchat freakouts, rejected Yelp reviews, Facebook screeds, and SmugMug streams-of-consciousness that merge volcanic confession with eagle-eyed art criticism, Art Is Everything shows us the painful but joyous development of a mid-career artist whose world implodes just as she has a breakthrough.
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781419711251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is art? This engaging book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers nearly 200 illustrated answers to that question, all presented in simple, concise observations about selected works in the Museum's collection. For example, a Nigerian mask is symmetry, a Van Gogh still life is composition, a Babylonian lion is fierce, a Duccio portrait is tender. Some of the statements speak to technique, while others are descriptive or evocative. All are simple reflections that encourage readers to observe, to think, to debate, and to develop their own definitions of art. Reaching across all periods and media, from ancient statues to medieval tapestries to Baroque instruments to Impressionist paintings to contemporary costumes, the selected works gathered in this clever little book are sure to inspire both novice and seasoned art lovers.
Author: Lanaya Gore
Publisher:
Published: 2016-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781616343958
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